Classic Sailing | Sailing Holidays & Hands on Traditional Sailing

Sailing holidays where you join in.

Everyone can join in, there is no need for previous sailing experience. This is very much a sailing holiday where you fully participate.
It’s unlike any holiday you have ever tried before. It’s social, its adventuresome, it’s exciting and yes classic sailing can change your life.
No other holiday combines so much in such a short time.

Value for Money at Classic Sailing

Our sailing holidays include all your food, all your accommodation, there are no hidden extras and you will only need a tiny amount of spending money.

Individuals with Romantic Souls

Enjoy the romance of the sea, let nature help you along the way. It takes all sorts to make up a voyage crew, that’s part of the fun adventurers are looking to get away from it all, experience a real sailing holiday or to find out how tall ship sailing works.  Going for more you can step up the command ladder by joining one of our RYA sailing courses.

Most people come on their own and in no time at all the sailing has turned them into a team.

"By Saturday it was hard to believe some of us had only met on Friday" Mark Coates.

Love to learn

Classic sailing holidays are a great what way to learn but for a more formal approach our RYA sailing courses lead to qualifications recognised around the world.

Traditional boating holidays and tall ship sailing

For us a real boat or sailing ship is one which makes your heart skip a beat as it comes around a headland, or makes a commercial fisherman look up from his nets and smile as you sail past. They are the boats with instantly recognisable wooden masts and hulls. A tall ship sailing into harbour creates  a timeless scene more beautiful than any painting. Sailing holidays on modern boats are fine but for the real thing try tall ship sailing.

Our traditional yachts and tall ships have been photographed, sketched and written about by admirers on the shore, but this is nothing compared to emotions stirred by sailing on them and feeling part of a ship. There’s a great danger that on a classic sailing holiday you may fall in love with a life on the ocean waves; you have been warned!

Why we do it

Tall ship sailing like any boating holiday is not only great fun it also helps preserve and build new historic ships and boats,  we love what we do, we hope you do too.